Compare it to the idea that a latin speaking mother would give birth to a spanish speaking child. To say that the small number of mutations that accumulated between you and your offspring counts as a speciation event is ridiculous.

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." - Galileo

Dawkins also adresses this problem in 'The greatest show on earth'. He describes how difficult it is to classify humans into different categories, starting from the Australopithecus to the modern Homo Sapiens. At no specific point can you really say a new species is born. Classification may be difficult, but it makes evolution make even more sense.

So imagine how difficult it must be to classify something as a chicken, a modern egg or an egg-laying animal.

(12-05-2011 11:21 PM)daemonowner Wrote: The only way I can think of to distinguish between species is by asking whether they would be able to interbreed. If not, they could be considered different species.

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